[Twisted-web] Off topic: streaming animated GIFs

[Tommi Virtanen]

Mike Pelletier wrote:
> This is a really great idea!  Are there any gotchas that should be mentioned?  
> Does the GIF header not specify the number of frames?  And even if the GIF 

Dug up old code with more concrete things. Now that I look at it in more
detail, there were problems with multiframe GIFs, so I ended up doing
this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=--myboundary
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

--myboundary
Content-Type: image/jpeg

<put a jpeg here>
--myboundary
<delay for e.g. 5 seconds here>Content-Type: image/jpeg

<put a jpeg here>
--myboundary
etc etc..

just make sure you close that stream at some point, at least at that
time Netscape on windows did not obey refreshes dictated by HTTP headers
if the page contained an <img> that was still being pushed.